Where's Condi?

[techs]

The Secretary of State is usually visible during the campaigns for President and Congress.
This year Condi literally disappeared.
I am guessing she was kept out of sight in the campaign so as not to tarnish her image.
McCain-Condi in 2008?

 

[Uhtrinity]

She was at the Martin Luther King dedication this morning. She was in a pic with Jessie Jackson, talk about polar opposites.

 

[Steeplerot]

Originally posted by: Uhtrinity
She was at the Martin Luther King dedication this morning.

hmm, I was wondering what that rolling noise was coming from underground.

Figured it was a earthquake or the last person on bushs side -Barney making a dig for it.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Hard to imagine Condi on a ticket. She's been adamant that she's not running in '08. People can and do change their minds but I'd be surprised to see her on anybody's ticket.

 

[Uhtrinity]

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
Hard to imagine Condi on a ticket. She's been adamant that she's not running in '08. People can and do change their minds but I'd be surprised to see her on anybody's ticket.

I would think she is as tarnished as Colin Powell or John McCain.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: Uhtrinity

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
Hard to imagine Condi on a ticket. She's been adamant that she's not running in '08. People can and do change their minds but I'd be surprised to see her on anybody's ticket.

I would think she is as tarnished as Colin Powell or John McCain.

That too... I don't think you'll see many people associated with this administration moving on to higher office. Powell might be able to if he wanted to. He was there from the start and was smart enough to bail when things started heading south.

 

[Uhtrinity]

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy

Originally posted by: Uhtrinity

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
Hard to imagine Condi on a ticket. She's been adamant that she's not running in '08. People can and do change their minds but I'd be surprised to see her on anybody's ticket.

I would think she is as tarnished as Colin Powell or John McCain.

That too... I don't think you'll see many people associated with this administration moving on to higher office. Powell might be able to if he wanted to. He was there from the start and was smart enough to bail when things started heading south.

I can never forgive him for his UN performance. Even at the time I was thinking yeah right, mobile bio labs and remote control attack drones?? Before that I considered him viable, not now, not ever again. Never liked Condi, and lost respect for McCain when he buddied up with Bush after Bush / Rove smeared him.

 

[UberNeuman]

She must be busy re-painting her name on the oil tanker....

 

[conehead433]

Condi is un-electable as a candidate.

 

[Lemon law]

We must remember than Condi is Secretary of State---and the chief salesperson of our foreign policy---and now that our nation's foreign policy is no longer stay the course,
Condi, like the rest of us, is called home with nothing to sell or support. And when the BaKer-Hamilton report is released---and the decider has some time to digest the report---the decider will
then decide the new foreign policy---and so inform Condi--and Condi will then inform the other foreign nations---who will then be so inspired---that the entire USA may be buried in the
long overdue flowers and candy.

And then we will all live happily ever after---so good night boys and girls---sleep tight---have sweet dreams---GWB will lead us not into temptation---but will make us lie down by the still waters
of the great republican swamp---and we better watch out for that other lady---Nancy Pelosi---who is hard at work---with her little shovel---trying to drain those still waters.--spoiling our dreams, shattering our illusions, and could gasp---even discredit one of the greatest liars in a generation---Condi Rice.

 

[imported_Lothar]

She's not electable.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: techs
The Secretary of State is usually visible during the campaigns for President and Congress.
This year Condi literally disappeared.
I am guessing she was kept out of sight in the campaign so as not to tarnish her image.
McCain-Condi in 2008?

11-14-2006 Giuliani moves toward White House bid

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Republican moderate who achieved near-mythic popularity for his handling of the Sept. 11 attacks, filed papers Friday in New York to create the Rudy Giuliani Presidential Exploratory Committee Inc. A copy of the document was obtained by The Associated Press.

Giuliani enjoys strong name recognition. An AP-AOL News poll conducted in late October found that, among Republicans, Giuliani was essentially tied with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and McCain as the person they would most like to see elected president in 2008.

Rice has insisted that she will not run.

 

[DealMonkey]

What are you guys talking about? She shilled for the GOP like the best of 'em:

Condi Rice Does Conservative Radio, TV Media Blitz

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, whose job entails promoting U.S. aims abroad, is doing her part for Republicans on the home front these days.

In the final stretch before midterm elections that imperil Republican control of Congress, the most popular member of President Bush's Cabinet is selling the administration line on Iran, North Korea and Iraq in a string of interviews with conservative radio and television hosts.

Rice did 12 interviews in 11 days through Friday, an unusually busy schedule when Rice is not traveling.

Ten of the sessions were with conservative hosts, including Cincinnati's Bill Cunningham of WLW-Radio in Cincinnati.

By comparison, Rice did 11 interviews with individual U.S. and foreign media in all of November 2005, most of them during a trip to the Middle East.

Linkage

Condi was a busy little bee, trying to talk directly to the true-believers.

 

[piasabird]

My guess is she had a disagreement with the President on how to approach the international problems like Iraq and Iran. She has always seemed more of an intellectual career diplomat than a politician.

 

[trenchfoot]

Originally posted by: piasabird
My guess is she had a disagreement with the President on how to approach the international problems like Iraq and Iran. She has always seemed more of an intellectual career diplomat than a politician.

any person with half a brain would disagree with bush just on looks alone. nah, j/k

it still confounds me though, that as intellectually bright as condi is, she is still as faithful to bush as she ever was, despite his proving beyond a shadow of a doubt what a loser he is.

fate: "mental giant, meet mental midget."
condi and bush in unison: "oh, heyyy, we've got alot in common then huh?"

i guess mutual loyalty produces strange bedfellows sometimes.

edit - grmr

 

[Arkaign]

Anyone closely attached to Bush is political poison in '08.

Giuliani is a wild card, personally I think he's trash, but you never know. I think he's poisoned by a few main points :

*He supports gun control, which will piss off those who support civil liberty in all forms.

*He supports abortion rights, which will piss off a huge chunk of the far-right fringe, which judging from polls, adds up to at least 30% of the country.

*He was a scumbag who cheated on his 2nd wife with a 'friend', and then without even telling his wife, he held a freaking PRESS CONFERENCE telling the world his marriage was over. Then he married the slut he was cheating on her with. I don't care if you're convservative or liberal, cheating on your wife is wrong, and I think this will always stain him.

*He has that smug New York east-coast smirk and condescending mentality. Against any of the rising Democrat candidates, he just looks like another Cheney, a bald old smirking jackass. He might pull some eastern states, but it'd be shocking to see him win wide support based on his reptile-like presence and personality.

*The biggest nail in his coffin : He supports Bush's Iraq War Policies